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On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during |
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> > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. |
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> > |
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> > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The |
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> > > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly |
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> > > Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O |
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> > > -- Neil Bothwick |
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> > |
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> > I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to |
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> > anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was |
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> > returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting |
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> > down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last |
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> > one does a reboot. |
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> > Hope that helps. |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> > |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> Hi Dale, |
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> thanks a lot for your help!!! :) |
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> This will help to bring donw the machine in an more |
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> cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-) |
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> But: |
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> How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself? |
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Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the |
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right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I |
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suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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